GeForce GT 210 vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R5 M330, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1030 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320 Stream Processors, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R5 M330 should be 13% quicker than the GeForce GT 210 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 210		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 should be quite a bit (more or less 337%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 210. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 210		4712 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15888 (337%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 will be much (more or less 250%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 210, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 210		2356 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5884 (250%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.